1 day on market, Rosie O'Donnell's home has buyer

Rosie O'Donnell has a contract on her Lakeview home one day after listing it for $2.5 million. (Handout)

After just one day of officially being on the market, talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell's 12-room, 6,000-square-foot house in Lakeview has a buyer.

Just 24 hours after O'Donnell listed the five-bedroom house for $2.5 million, the home went under contract Tuesday, according to the local real estate multiple listing service. It is not known when O'Donnell, who bought the house last fall for $2.25 million from Erik Logan, the president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, will close on the sale.

Though O'Donnell has occupied a corporate apartment while working in Chicago, she had lived in the home for a time. However, as the Tribune previously reported, with her children visiting her in Chicago from their New York home only on weekends, the talk-show host feels she does not need so much space, though she likes the home itself.

"She said, 'I don't need this big of a house,'" said her listing agent, Janelle Emalfarb-Gordon of Koenig & Strey. "She also said, 'I wish I could take this house to New York with me.' "

O'Donnell's longtime base has been in the New York City area, though she has begun working out of Chicago with the launch last year of her Chicago-based "The Rosie Show" talk show. The show is produced by Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

Features in O'Donnell's house include five full baths, two half baths, 11-foot ceilings, custom cabinetry, millwork, a home theater, a sports bar, a 2,000-square-foot roof deck, a three-car heated garage and an outdoor space with SYNLawn-designed patios.